Philip Godfrey Reinhard
Philip Godfrey Reinhard | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
Assumed office January 12, 2007 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois | |
In office February 10, 1992 – January 12, 2007 | |
Appointed by | George H. W. Bush |
Preceded by | Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089 |
Succeeded by | Frederick J. Kapala |
Personal details | |
Born | LaSalle, Illinois, U.S. | January 12, 1941
Education | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (BA, JD) |
Philip Godfrey Reinhard (born January 12, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Education and career
[edit]Reinhard was born in LaSalle, Illinois. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1964. He was an assistant state's attorney of Winnebago County, Illinois from 1964 to 1967, and then in private practice in Rockford, Illinois from 1967 to 1968, returning to the Winnebago County government as a state's attorney from 1968 to 1976. He was a judge on the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois from 1976 to 1980, and on the Second District Court of Appeals, Illinois from 1980 to 1992.[1]
Federal judicial service
[edit]On August 1, 1991, Reinhard was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois created by 104 Stat. 5089. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 6, 1992, and received his commission on February 10, 1992. He assumed senior status on January 12, 2007.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Philip Godfrey Reinhard at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Sources
[edit]- Philip Godfrey Reinhard at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- 1941 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American judges
- 21st-century American judges
- Illinois state court judges
- Judges of the Illinois Appellate Court
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- People from LaSalle, Illinois
- United States district court judges appointed by George H. W. Bush
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
- University of Illinois College of Law alumni